How you can report on that interview and not use the term “delusional” is beyond me. See, i.e. "I’ve actually had, because they’ve done things that are artificial. So there’s been more of a burden on me than other presidents." https://t.co/oBmXCp8fpA

Trump response to did he engage in witness tampering: "Well, I will say this: I think people have the right to speak their mind.” But he’s wrong: Witness intimidation is not protected speech: https://t.co/ymCwpof7Zt

Why report that Trump says intelligence chiefs agreed with him? All they did was tell him that his mischaracterization of the media’s correct characterization of their remarks was not accurate. pic.twitter.com/e1L3KrrZEJ

"Trump displayed only the dimmest awareness that his attacks on the press might be having severely negative effects, while [alternating] between megalomaniacal self-congratulation and self-imagined victimization” https://t.co/mfVbvQ7S16@ThePlumLineGS gets it

1 thought on “A case study in normalizing Trump, from the New York Times”

Thanks, Dan. Someday, perhaps, someone will write an insider account of how the Times lost its way during the reign of our so-called president. (If it happens, it certainly won’t come from Peter Baker or Maggie Haberman, and if it did, I wouldn’t trust it.)